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SANBORN CHOSEN FOR MULTI-YEAR NYC MAPPING PROJECT

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Colorado Springs, CO-Jim Cannistra, senior vice president of Sanborn, a photogrammetric mapping and geographic information system (GIS) industry leader based in Pelham, New York, is pleased to announce the company has been contracted to perform update mapping services for New York City's GIS landbase, referred to as "NYCMAP."

The initial phase of the multi-year update project will be completed within one year and will involve updating existing data for Manhattan and Staten Island, and parts of the Bronx and Brooklyn.

Sanborn will update existing digital orthophoto imagery and planimetric and topographic data originally compiled by its Colorado Springs office. As part of the update project Sanborn will produce "true orthophotos" whereby distortions typically associated with orthophotos in urban areas will be removed.

NYC government agencies will continue to use this updated NYCMAP as their key GIS landbase. The landbase was used extensively by the city to support mapping and GIS applications in response to the World Trade Center attack on September 11.

Hunter College of New York City will be responsible for overall program management and QA/QC. Sanborn will work closely with the college's Center for the Analysis and Research of Spatial Information (CARSI) on all phases of the project.

Krysia Sapeta, project manager for the New York City update project, remarked, "We're very pleased to be working with Hunter College and the city on this innovative update project. Not only is this project critical to the success of New York's GIS, it is significant for Sanborn because it is the largest citywide project in the country for which true orthophoto imagery will be produced. We're very excited to be working on the project."

With a rich tradition of mapping dating back to 1866, Sanborn offers a full suite of GIS and photogrammetric mapping services to federal, state and local governments, and private companies. The company's services include GIS consulting, data acquisition, digital mapping, and data conversion. The company has offices in the United States and abroad.

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